 | Jonathan Swift - 1922 - 358 pages
...gently with the other, after an hearty fit of laughing, asked me, whether I were a Whig or a Tory. Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind...mimicked by such diminutive insects as I : and yet, said he, I dare engage, these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honour, they contrive... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pages
...gently with the other, after an hearty fit of laughing, asked me, whether I were a Whig or a Tory. Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind...mimicked by such diminutive insects as I: and yet, said he, I dare engage, these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honour, they contrive... | |
 | Luther Martin Pflueger - 1923 - 444 pages
...who is not overly intelligent and who has no comprehension of Gulliver's superior intellect, says: "how contemptible a thing was human grandeur which could be mimicked by such diminuitive insects *s I, (Gulliver) and yet, says he, I dare engage, these creatures have their titles... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pages
...gently with the other, after an hearty fit of laughing, asked me, whether I were a Whig or a Tory. Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind...observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, could be mimicked by such diminutive insects an< ^ y e ^ said he, I dare engage, these creatures have... | |
 | 1855 - 848 pages
...me gently with the other, after an hearty fit of laughing, asking me, whether /was a Whig or a Tory. Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff nearly as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed how contemptible "a thing was human... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...laughing, asked me, whether I were a Whig or a Tory." The attack on human pride is relentless: ". . . he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur,...mimicked by such diminutive insects as I. 'And yet," said he, 'I dare engage, these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honour, they contrive... | |
 | Attilio Brilli - 1985 - 256 pages
...rovesciata in bestialité e l'uomo, creatura razionale, viene identificato con un verme. 27 « [...] he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such a diminutive insect as I ». 28 Conferma, questa, - se ce ne fosse bisogno, - di come egli avesse già... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1992 - 290 pages
...me gendy with the other; after an hearty fit of laughing, asked me whether I were a Whig or a Tory. Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind...staff, near as tall as the main-mast of the Royal Sovereign;122 he observed, how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by... | |
 | Howard Erskine-Hill - 1993 - 132 pages
...me gently with the other; after an hearty Fit of laughing, asked me whether I were a Whig or a Tory. Then turning to his first Minister, who waited behind...be mimicked by such diminutive Insects as I ... And thus he continued on, while my Colour came and went several Times, with Indignation to hear our noble... | |
 | Benjamin Kilborne - 2002 - 218 pages
...his gaze, however small he is when compared to them. While discussing politics, one of the ministers "observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur,...could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I." 2S Envy plays an important role in defending against the shame of defect: rather than feel that it... | |
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Tory. Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the Royal Sovereign, he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be mimicked by such diminutive insects as I:... 
